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AN 300 articles to reform

announce the addition of novel criteria and issues related benefits, reduced working hours and co


El Nacional Eduardo Méndez Sánchez / Ana Diaz


The Social Development Committee of the National Assembly works with an eye to have listed the reform of the Labour Act for the October 30, so that day to send it to Secretariat legislature so that it will put its second argument.

Members Oscar Figuera, president of the Commission, and Oswaldo Vera, to develop the instrument, agreed that some 300 articles of the current Labor Law, consisting of 675, will be influenced in what they call "comprehensive reform "the text that governs the employment sector.

Just as the organic law education was subjected to a second discussion several years after approval in the first debate in plenary, the reform of the Labour Act will be made on the basis of a project submitted for first reading in March 2003.

While deputies say that after the reform, the Labour Act will be virtually "as new", consider that the most relevant is to provide a salutary lesson and discuss it on the floor a second time.

"On Tuesday we started the discussion article by article of the draft new Labour Act or comprehensive reform, in order to develop the body of the instrument that ended the debate in the committee will submit its second reading in plenary, "Figueras said.

added that the law be prepared on the basis of" novel constitutional criteria. "While declining to give details about specific aspects include the law, the MP said that currently define the general provisions of the project.

The issue of co-management by workers will be present in the legal instrument, and the powers that have the Labour Ministry to sanction companies that violate its provisions, especially with regard to reinstatement staff. In that case, penalties will still being evaluated.
Asked
the possibility that the office of Maria Cristina Iglesias have an organization able to impose sanctions, as would a "superintendency" Figuera said that "this is a very specific about which report is not yet" but it will be "the role of staff in meeting the standard. "

delay

With this reform the 1998 election promise of President Hugo Chávez to return to the retroactive benefits.
The Assembly approved with 8 years behind the constitutional mandate of retroactive benefits calculated according to length of service and final salary. The limitation of this right is ten years.

The other provision of the Constitution is to reduce the working hours of 36 and 35 hours a week for daytime and nighttime hours, respectively.

Other changes in the law are the reduction (from three months to one) of the probationary period for payment into the public and private sector, and raise the holidays from 15 to 45 days with enjoyment and payment.

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